Line wraping only selected text in JTextPane

Question

Is it possible to not word wrap styled text word groups in JTextPane so that the word groups are kept together. I would have liked to do this with by adding a 'keep together' attrib. to StyleConstants in my StyledDocument but sadly this is not possible. (unless anyone knows differently)
The only alternative I can think of is to insert "\n" before a word group when I detect a word group has been broken up, but this seem a messy solution.
Does anyone know a way of overriding the underlying wrapping code to keep a styled group together?
Many Thanks..Matt.

Answer 1

The solution I have arrived at is to insert translucent "_" characters to replace spaces in words I want to glue together. Not a good solution though.
//ent is the object representing the words to be glued
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[ ]");
Matcher myMatcher = p.matcher(ent.getOccuranceText());
while (myMatcher.find()) {
          int startSpace = myMatcher.start();
          getStyledDocument().setCharacterAttributes(
          ent.getStart()+startSpace,
          1,
          getStyledDocument().getStyle(Article.INVISIBLE),
          false); //false as we want to preserve previous formating
}And to the style document I add
Style invisible = docIn.addStyle(Article.INVISIBLE, regular);
StyleConstants.setForeground(invisible,new Color(0, 0, 0, 0));